Fredrick

yeah its true

Marlee

Yeah

Brent

They buy lottery tickets in hopes of winning it big…It’s a gambling addiction obviously when one spends money on lottery tickets instead of paying off their debts.

Lorenzo

Well, well off suburbanites and townies don’t really need that small spark of hope do they?

Mitchell

Sorry, I can’t find the source but I read a study that it is mostly middle class people that buy lotto tickets. The lowest rates of purchase were in the highest and lowest income groups. This makes sense, the rich don’t need to and the poor can’t afford to. But there is propaganda by the anti-gambling lobby that gambling is a problem for poor people.

As for convincing your relatives. I am assuming that you have wisely invested your own spare money. Why not show them the returns your own investments have made. Results are usually a better way to convince people of an argument.

Lexie

If you heard such a blanket statement on the radio about a particular social group involving itself in some type of less than normal-risk activity, it’s probably some drooling right-wing psycho who got that particular “factoid” by pulling it out of his ***. It’s a ridiculously stupid statement on its face.

Terry

the lottery is a tax on people with poor maths skills

Zaniyah

Rock, there is some truth to that. I have lived and traveled in many cities, and I have seen many low income people buying tickets. I have no further comment.